Sudiksha Ahuja found guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct and her nursing registration cancelled
The New South Wales civil and administrative tribunal made an order prohibiting Ahuja from providing any health service for 12 months.The New South Wales civil and administrative tribunal made an order prohibiting Ahuja from providing any health service for 12 months.An aged care nurse who slammed a dementia patient’s therapy doll on a table and laughed at the distressed patient who believed it was a real baby has been found to have been “callous and deplorable”.
The tribunal found it was not clear which practitioner initiated the conduct. AIN-B alleged it was Ahuja who “said she was going to do something to prank Patient A”, while another staff member gave evidence to the inquiry alleging she heard AIN-B say to Ahuja “ hates it when people mess around with the dolls. Go move the blanket and see”.
Ahuja “thought the situation was humorous and was laughing at Patient A’s distress in the circumstances … her own conduct,” the tribunal found. The tribunal did not accept Ahuja’s evidence that the laughter was an attempt to reassure Patient A or lighten her mood. Ahuja also provided a demonstration of how she handled the doll. “It was apparent that in her attempts at demonstrating what she was doing with the doll, became aware of the difficulty she was having in reliably telling the truth and changed the manner in which she was giving the demonstration on a number of occasions,” the tribunal found.
A nurse attending to Patient A’s medicine the next morning recorded in a progress note that “Patient A started crying / stated that they should not do that / when I asked Patient A what was the matter she further stated / that the girls were hurting the babies they were hitting there heads on the tables and laughing / Patient A was very upset she remained crying and shaking her head”.
AIN-B gave evidence that Ahuja asked her to provide false information about the incident to the investigation, by saying words to the effect of “can you please tell them that I just dropped it accidentally? And nothing. I didn’t smack it on the table”.
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